Dates
- Cover date
- February-March 1943
- On sale
- December 15, 1942
- Pages
- 68
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Editions and covers
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Creators
Stories
- Christmas Gift Books · 0.67 pages
- Part 1: A Spy on Paradise Island · 15 pages
Wonder Woman flies to Paradise Island to celebrate Diana's Day, unaware she's brought a stowaway-- one of Paula von Gunther's slave girls, intent on killing Wonder Woman and guiding a Japanese destroyer to the Amazon homeland.
- Part 2: The Devilish Devices of Baroness Von Gunther · 13 pages
Paula enslaves Steve and Wonder Woman and leads them into an underground deathtrap.
- Nurse Edith Cavell · 4 pages
Story of Nurse Edith Cavell (1865-1915), who helped allied soldiers escape German custody so they could rejoin the war effort.
- Part 3: The Secret of Baroness Von Gunther · 13 pages
Learning the cause of Paula's villainy, Wonder Woman travels to Nazi Germany to retrieve the Baroness' daughter from a concentration camp.
- The Furlough · 2 pages
- [Part 4:] Ordeal of Fire! · 11 pages
In preventing a Nazi plot to destroy a munitions factory and saving Wonder Woman's life, Paula von Gunther is redeemed and accepted into Aphrodite's service as a neophyte.
Publisher’s description
Wonder Woman stars in four classic stories by character creator William Moulton Marston, including "Ordeal of Fire," which features the reformation of Wonder Woman's archenemy the Baroness!
Characters
Reprinted in
Wonder Woman Archives (1998), The Wonder Woman Chronicles (2010), Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2016), Wonder Woman: The Golden Age (2018)